Latin America and the Geographical Priorities of Multinational Agro-industries

Geoforum

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 39-52

  Rama, Ruth ^a  

^a CSIC Instituto de Economia Geografia y Demografia IEGD   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROINDUSTRY; DEVELOPING REGION; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL TREND; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 0030446215     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-7185(95)00028-3     Document Type: Article

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